The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
Stronghurst Graphic, July 5, 1923
MEDIA MEANDERINGS: Mr. and Mrs. N.J. Gram were delightfully surprised Sabbath afternoon when about fifty relatives and friends drove over from Monmouth to help them celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Rev. J. Dales Buchannan of Monmouth, who has spent the past two years studying in Scotland, will occupy the U.P. pulpit next Sabbath. Rev. Buchannan is the son of Rev. Buchannan who several years ago was the pastor of Walnut Grove Church. He was the one who started services in Wever Academy before the church was built. Miss Mabel Berghorn of Barrington, Ill. is a guest in the W.A. Spears home. Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents near Gladstone occurred the marriage of Miss Martha Stonebeck to Mr. Marshall Spears. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Spears who live northwest of town. Mrs. Bernice Rodin and sister Grace Hickman are in Galesburg where they have employment as solicitors for Swift & Co. The school board of the elementary school have employed Mr. James Shoemaker as principal and Miss Florence Gram as primary teacher for the coming school year. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Staley of Stronghurst are with their daughter, Mrs. Emory Cavins, while Mr. Staley is doing some carpenter work for several parties including repair work at the Wever Academy.
Perry Heap and Gail Sullivan drove to Peoria to get repairs for the Heap binder so as to be ready for their large harvest. Archie Heap has 220 acres of wheat and 170 acres of oats. He will run three binders and will have quite a force of men to help care for his large fields of grain. Quite a number are already cutting wheat. M. B. Drain is working on the Sinclair pipeline near Dallas City. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. Les Sullivan have opened a restaurant in the E.G. Lewis See Co. building, one door north of their office. Everything is new and up to date and the fixtures are quite neat and attractive.
BIGGSVILLE BRIEFS: John Gibson is taking a two weeks vacation for the rural route No. 2; Mrs. Carrie Wiegand is acting as substitute. Mrs. W. B. Jamison was moved from her home in Burlington to the home of her son Jess and family; she is a very sick woman. Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Cochran of Kirkwood are the proud parents of a baby son born last Thursday morning at the Monmouth Hospital. Miss Nancy Jamison has resumed her work at the post office after a month's vacation. Miss Ethel Cook, her assistant discharged duties in her absence.
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: A fine baby girl came to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Keener; she will bear the name Audrey Marie. Mr. Audrey Foote, wife and baby of Washington, D.C. drove through in their car to make a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Foote. Report says that Ray Houtchens, a former Stronghurst boy who has been working for the Sinclair Oil Co. at Niota, Ill. for the past two year, has been promoted to the position of Chief Engineer of the company's big pumping plant at Ponemah, Ill. Marion Cook, a resident of the Old Bedford neighborhood some 25 years or 30 years ago, came in on No. 22 from his home in Winfield, Kans. He reports that the recent high water in the neighborhood of Winfield caused damage to the farmers to the extent of thousands of dollars and that the reports in the newspapers were not at all exaggerated.
H. W. Lanphere and wife and daughters Grace of Hollywood, Calif., have been guests at the home of his brother, Guy Lanphere and family. They drove through in their auto by way of the southern route and hope to return by the way of Washington State. Marion Forbes of South Bend, Ind. visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Forbes; he has fully recovered from the effects of an automobile accident a week or so ago. During the absence of Walter Leibengood and family from their home north of town last Saturday, thieves stripped the cherry trees in their orchard of all the fruit using the ladder which had been placed in the orchard for the use by the family in picking the cherries on the following Monday.
Correction concerning the accident which happened to Mrs. Frank Cox: The report we published stated that Mrs. Cox had stepped out on the shafts of the buggy to arrange the bridle on the horse she was driving. It appears, however, that the horse was running, that the bridle bit broke and that Mrs. Cox stepped out on the shaft in a desperate attempt to reach the halter and was run over. Otis Mills of La Harpe, who was on probation for another crime committed a few years ago, was convicted in the circuit court of Hancock County of stealing an automobile from Dr. D.F. Beacom of La Harpe and sentenced to a term on from one to ten years in the penitentiary at Joliet. Mills is a young man of good parentage and has a wife and two small children. He claims that he merely took the Beacom automobile for a joy ride and was forced to abandon it when it broke down. Mrs. A.E. Moore and two children left for a visit with relatives and old friends in Ekhart and Winnipeg, Manitoba; they expect to be gone one month.